Being a Fiona Apple fan is a long and arduous waiting game, but patience is pleasures greatest virtue and the payoff is always worth the emotional labour. Thankfully, it looks like the release of new music is imminent.

Apple lives a famously reclusive lifestyle, an interview with her is a once in a blue moon occurrence. Earlier this month Vulture staff writer Rachel Handler took to Twitter to call out a video posted by Variety. The video allegedly redubbed an Interview with Hustlers director Lorene Scafaria that made it sound like Apple had donated her royalties from ‘Criminal’ —which features in the film— to the movie instead of the refugee aid organization that the royalties were donated to.

“this is so bizarre… it appears Variety edited out Lorene Scafaria saying “Fiona Apple is giving all the money [from ‘Criminal’] to refugees” and changed it to ‘to movie’ lol wut”, she wrote.

Apple came across this tweet and reached out to Handler “from a nondescript Hotmail address” asking if she wanted to talk. In the feature, Apple discussed her decision to donate the royalties earned from ‘Criminal’ during 2019 and 2020 to the refugee fund While They Wait.

“I was looking on Twitter, which is unusual for me. I did a Twitter search on immigration and I found [Scott Hechinger from Brooklyn Defender Services], and this organization made the most sense for me. If I can’t get stuff in there, at least I can try and help them get out of there. When you can help and you want to, it’s really wonderful to do that.”

During the interview, Apple revealed that the follow-up to 2012’s The Idler Wheel… is imminent. “I was supposed to be done a million years ago,” she divulged. “And I go off and I take too long making stuff. I’m hoping for early 2020. I think.”

You can read the interview in its entirety here.

Earlier this year, Fiona Apple released a reworked version of her When The Pawn… track ‘I Know’ with King Princess. You can listen to it below.

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